Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 3
Inside, the sailor jumps, bangs and dances so wildly that the Whale gets hiccups, so the Whale carries him all the way home to the white cliffs and lets him walk out.
Who acts: sailor, Whale · What happens: jump, bang, dance, get, carry, let · To what, where: hiccups, sailor, white cliffs, Whale
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailor, Whale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inside | inside | ADV | _ | 5 jumps | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Inside | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sailor | det |
| 4 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumps | nsubj |
| 5 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bangs | punct |
| 7 | bangs | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 jumps | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dances | cc |
| 9 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 jumps | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 wildly | advmod |
| 11 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 9 dances | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 gets | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Whale | det |
| 14 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gets | nsubj |
| 15 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dances | advcl |
| 16 | hiccups | hiccup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gets | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carries | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 carries | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Whale | det |
| 20 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carries | nsubj |
| 21 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 gets | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carries | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 way | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 home | obl |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 carries | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 cliffs | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cliffs | det |
| 29 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cliffs | amod |
| 30 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 carries | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 lets | cc |
| 32 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 carries | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 lets | obj |
| 34 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 lets | xcomp |
| 35 | out | out | ADV | _ | 34 walk | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 jumps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | present | the sailor | inside property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bang | present | the sailor not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dance | present | the sailor not said here | wildly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | present | the Whale | hiccups | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hiccup=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | carry | present | the Whale | sailor | the white cliffs | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cliff=Destination | ||
| 6 | let | present | the Whale not said here | Whale | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | walk out | infinitive | Whale not said here | out property | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:3.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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